Once again—again and again—painful scientific curiosity pushes humanity to the brink of catastrophe. An attempt to invade the mysterious Labyrinth, created long before our Universe was born, turns into a deadly threat. In a world where there is neither the Sun nor time—only a lifeless red desert—everyone has to make the only right choice. The Labyrinth—either a huge brain or a monstrous amusement ride—turns both the Cosmos and even human souls inside out, forcing participants in a scientific expedition to fight side by side with legions of Ancient Rome against their own doubles, and to find support in a surprising civilization of lizard-people. And somewhere far away, on the ghostly edge between illusion and reality, the exit from the Labyrinth can be seen…